Poetic journal

Poetic journal

A poetic journal is a literary genre combining aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing. Born of twin impulses: to track change in daily life and to memorialize experience, poetic journals owe allegiances to Asian writing — particularly the Japanese haibun of Matsuo Basho, "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shōnagon, and the poetic diaries of Masaoka Shiki — as well as Objectivist poets and others associated with Donald Allen's anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Unlike traditional diaries or journals that focus primarily on recounting a day's experience, poetic journals emphasize the act of writing itself in collaboration with the day's account. Taking its cue from post - Jack Kerouac writers Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge - the poetic journal aims to be all inclusive as well as timely and attentive. To quote Tyler Doherty in his introduction to "For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals", " [The poetic journal] doesn't try to tell us "what" the world is, so much as remind us "that" the world is." [For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals. Bootstrap Press: Lowell, MA. 2007.]

Influences

Asian Influences: Matsuo Basho, Sei Shōnagon, Masaoka Shiki.
19th Century Naturalist Influences: Henry David Thoreau.
Objectivist influences: William Carlos Williams, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff.

elected poetic journals

Poetic Journal Anthologies:
Tyler Doherty & Tom Morgan: "For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals"Poetic Journals:
Paul Blackburn: "The Journals"
Tyler Doherty: "Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro"

Larry Eigner: "Readiness / Enough / Depends / On"

Zoketsu Norman Fischer: "The Narrow Roads of Japan"

Allen Ginsberg: "The Fall of America"

Jack Kerouac: "Book of Sketches"

Joanne Kyger: "Again"; "As Ever"; "Patzcuaro"

David Lehman: "The Daily Mirror"

Bernadette Mayer: "Midwinter’s Day"
Michael Rothenberg: "An Unhurried Vision", "The Paris Journals", "Narcissus"

Ron Silliman: Bart; Xing
Andrew Schelling: "The Road to Ocosingo"; "Two Elk: A High Country Notebook"
Joel Sloman: "Cuban Journal"

Gary Snyder: "Earth House Hold"

Philip Whalen: "The Goof Book"

John Wieners: "707 Scott Street"

References

External links

* [http://www.naropa.edu/academics/graduate/writingpoetics/mfa/courses.cfm Practice of Poetry: The Poetic Journal] A link to Andrew Schelling's poetic journal course description.
* [http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/pawlakinterview.htm Cervena Barva Press interview with Mark Pawlak] Touches on Poetic Journals.


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